Advanced Surgical Safety
Surgery is performed daily at Alamo Feline Health Center, yet surgical complications and deaths are extremely rare because we have advanced equipment to insure safe surgical procedures. Multiparameter surgical monitors measure vitals during the procedures. We are able to measure EKG tracing, heart rate, core body temperature, oxygen saturation of the blood (pulse oximetry), capnography, and blood pressure. When these parameters go out of the normal ranges, alarms warn us so appropriate measures can be taken. High tech warming pads adapted from the same devices made for human surgery are used on the surgery tables and in the recovery cages to insure proper body temperature during and immediately following surgery. Intravenous infusion pumps administer the correct volume of fluids during and after surgery.
Surgical safety is the purpose of our multiparameter monitors and other high tech intraoperative and post-operative devices.